Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(6,294 total reviews)
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42% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,294 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
4.0
Feb 27, 2020

good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

product based company, good infrastructure

Cons

night shifts , overtime, job presure

5.0
Feb 24, 2020

Good Place to learn

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

AWS is a good platform to learn new skills

Cons

Oncall and PIP may give employer too much pressure

2.0
Feb 24, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- You can gain knowledge and experience of being a part of huge corporation and ambitious projects - A lot of smart people to learn from

Cons

- Rush - it is all about deadlines. First, unrealistic deadlines will be set, then all corners will be cut to meet them. - Horrible code quality - be prepared to spend most of your time going through piles of rotten legacy spaghetti code. There is no culture or mechanisms to keep code quality high. - There are many great engineers at Amazon, and many many more mediocre and bad ones. - No time to experiment or learn - Broken promotion process - promotions do not follow your good work. If you want to get promoted, you need to spend time learning promotion process and how to make your work look good for promotion. Also, most important, you need others to like you . - Huge bureaucracy - everything is very formal and slow - Decline in salary - after 4 years at the company salary falls from a cliff (mine is down about 30%)

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